The West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission filed a petition with the state Supreme Court to get a temporary restraining order overturned. A Berkeley County circuit judge issued the restraining order stopping the AAA high school boys and girls soccer tournament set for this weekend in Beckley over a COVID-19 testing disparity.
Kanawha County election officials are running a pre-canvass test to confirm the official vote report that will be released on Monday. The audit consists of over 500-pages and lists the results from the county’s 169 precincts.
West Virginia State University is making cuts. The Board of Governors voted to eliminate sixteen positions as part of the university’s comprehensive cost savings plan. The university is implementing a hiring freeze, and will cut spending to reduce the overall budget.
Fire destroyed a landmark Fayetteville restaurant. It took five fire departments to get the blaze under control at the Secret Sandwich Society. The upper floor of the one-hundred-year-old building collapsed onto the kitchen below. No one was hurt.
Two people were hurt when a tow truck caught fire at Charleston Auto on Sissonville Drive. The fire started in a car that was being towed, and spread to the truck. Both victims are expected to be okay.
An inmate who escaped from the Parkersburg Correctional Center is back in custody. Curtis Hatfield walked away while on work release. He was captured in the Delbarton area and will be returned to the Mount Olive Correctional Complex.
Charleston police said they are asking the public for help in identifying a suspect in the investigation of the fraudulent use of a credit card. Police said the suspect was involved in the use of credit card Oct. 10 at the 7-Eleven in the 1600 block of Washington Street East. If you can help police … Read more
The main Kanawha County Public Library branch is temporarily closed due to COVID-19. An employee at the branch that’s inside the Charleston Town Center tested positive for COVID-19. Staff members have been encouraged to self-quarantine and the library will be closed until next week. The administrative offices of the library are expected to tentatively reopen … Read more
Clay County schools dismissed early Thursday after an additional positive COVID-19 test at the High School. Clay County High School will also be closed today (Friday, Nov. 6), to provide time for contact tracing.
Putnam County remained in orange on the latest West Virginia county alert system map, while Kanawha and Cabell counties stayed in yellow. Mingo and Mineral counties continued as the state’s only red counties in the map posted Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Resources. Counties in orange included Putnam, and Jackson. Gold counties … Read more